Triple

T646977
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Northeast Passage E11261 entity
Predicate firstCompleteTransitBy P17675 FINISHED
Object Vega expedition
The Vega expedition was a late 19th-century Swedish-led Arctic voyage commanded by Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld that became famous for achieving the first complete navigation of the Northeast Passage.
E80711 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Vega expedition | Statement: [Northeast Passage, firstCompleteTransitBy, Vega expedition]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vega expedition
Context triple: [Northeast Passage, firstCompleteTransitBy, Vega expedition]
  • A. Ralph Plaisted expedition
    The Ralph Plaisted expedition was a 1968 snowmobile journey that became widely recognized as the first confirmed over-ice surface expedition to reach the geographic North Pole.
  • B. Fram expedition across the Arctic Ocean
    The Fram expedition across the Arctic Ocean was Fridtjof Nansen’s pioneering late-19th-century polar voyage that used a specially designed ship to drift with the pack ice in an attempt to reach the North Pole and advance scientific understanding of the Arctic.
  • C. Granma expedition
    The Granma expedition was the 1956 seaborne journey in which Fidel Castro and his followers sailed from Mexico to Cuba to launch the guerrilla war that ignited the Cuban Revolution.
  • D. Soviet Arctic expeditions
    Soviet Arctic expeditions were a series of state-sponsored scientific and exploratory missions undertaken by the Soviet Union to chart, study, and assert presence in the Arctic Ocean and surrounding polar regions.
  • E. Franklin expedition
    The Franklin expedition was a 19th-century British Arctic voyage led by Sir John Franklin that tragically disappeared while attempting to chart and navigate the last unnavigated sections of the Northwest Passage.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Vega expedition
Triple: [Northeast Passage, firstCompleteTransitBy, Vega expedition]
Generated description
The Vega expedition was a late 19th-century Swedish-led Arctic voyage commanded by Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld that became famous for achieving the first complete navigation of the Northeast Passage.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vega expedition
Target entity description: The Vega expedition was a late 19th-century Swedish-led Arctic voyage commanded by Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld that became famous for achieving the first complete navigation of the Northeast Passage.
  • A. Ralph Plaisted expedition
    The Ralph Plaisted expedition was a 1968 snowmobile journey that became widely recognized as the first confirmed over-ice surface expedition to reach the geographic North Pole.
  • B. Fram expedition across the Arctic Ocean
    The Fram expedition across the Arctic Ocean was Fridtjof Nansen’s pioneering late-19th-century polar voyage that used a specially designed ship to drift with the pack ice in an attempt to reach the North Pole and advance scientific understanding of the Arctic.
  • C. Granma expedition
    The Granma expedition was the 1956 seaborne journey in which Fidel Castro and his followers sailed from Mexico to Cuba to launch the guerrilla war that ignited the Cuban Revolution.
  • D. Soviet Arctic expeditions
    Soviet Arctic expeditions were a series of state-sponsored scientific and exploratory missions undertaken by the Soviet Union to chart, study, and assert presence in the Arctic Ocean and surrounding polar regions.
  • E. Franklin expedition
    The Franklin expedition was a 19th-century British Arctic voyage led by Sir John Franklin that tragically disappeared while attempting to chart and navigate the last unnavigated sections of the Northwest Passage.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: firstCompleteTransitBy
Context triple: [Northeast Passage, firstCompleteTransitBy, Vega expedition]
  • A. firstSuccessfulImpactBy
    Indicates that one entity is the earliest or initial successful impactor upon another entity in a given context or sequence of events.
  • B. firstSuccessfulLaunchDate
    Indicates the calendar date on which an entity achieved its first successful launch.
  • C. ultimateFulfillmentAt
    Indicates that something reaches its highest or final state of completion, satisfaction, or realization at a specified point, place, or condition.
  • D. publicTransit
    Indicates that one entity provides or is connected via shared, scheduled transportation services (such as buses, trains, or subways) that are available for use by the general public.
  • E. dateTransmittedToUS
    Indicates the date on which something (such as information, data, or a document) was sent or conveyed to the United States.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (7 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69a493266a2881909daf4c40f719dee8 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49f1cb24481909d3b41a56b29dee9 completed March 1, 2026, 8:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a57b5a0c0c81909aa3339d7ba62a0d completed March 2, 2026, 11:58 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a57dbf6b1c8190981f9d85f721a7db completed March 2, 2026, 12:08 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a57e2762908190957f71686d107483 completed March 2, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69a49d0c0dcc8190849211d45489a5a7 completed March 1, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
PDg Predicate description generation batch_69a49df0de3c81909721eb391ec94031 completed March 1, 2026, 8:13 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.